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In total, Trump's article received over 10,000 edits from its creation to January 2016. [4] By September of that year, Trump's article had become the 28th most edited for a person on the site. [5] The next month, The Washington Post reported that Trump's page was edited more times in an election cycle than other Republican nominees since 2004. [6]
The Post's decision was criticized by staffers in the opinions and news divisions. [409] [410] The editorial board was informed by Shipley in a regular meeting, [431] who reacted strongly against the decision. [409] [430] [433] One board member told Semafor that "people are shocked, furious, surprised" at the announcement. [430]
Fred Trump III, author, advocate for people with disabilities, and Donald Trump's nephew (endorsed Kamala Harris) [260] [261] George Will , conservative columnist and political commentator ( endorsed Kamala Harris ) [ 262 ] [ 263 ]
From his inauguration in January 2017 through October 15, 2019, Trump called the news media the "enemy of the people" 36 times on Twitter. [3]In 2012, former Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell gave a speech at a conference sponsored by Accuracy in Media, a conservative watchdog group, in which he called the media "the enemy of the American people".
The term "fake news" has been weaponized with the goal of undermining public trust in news media. [155] President Donald Trump seized on the term "fake news" [161] [162] as a way of denigrating any story or outlet critical of him, even appearing to claim to have invented the term [163] and handing out so-called "Fake News Awards" in 2017. [164]
On November 7, most major American news networks called the election a victory for Biden when vote-counting in Pennsylvania and Nevada reached the point where he would certainly receive the 270 electors' votes needed for the presidency. The Trump campaign refused to concede defeat and instead asserted that "the election was far from over."
The 448-page Mueller Report, made public in April 2019, examined over 200 contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials but concluded that there was insufficient evidence to bring specific "conspiracy" or "coordination" charges against Trump or his associates.
In 1987, Trump placed full-page advertisements in three major newspapers, [135] expressing his views on foreign policy and how to eliminate the federal budget deficit. [136] In 1988, he approached Lee Atwater, asking to be put into consideration to be Republican nominee George H. W. Bush's running mate. Bush found the request "strange and ...